Tom, Melissa, and Jake all had awoken at the same time. Sibling telepathy? Not likely. Fluttershy feeding her animals? That's more like it. The three had still tried to become accustomed to the new changes, even with the Mantis around. The robot never exactly slept, he stood guard near the door all night. In a peaceful place like this, who would need such a defense? Unless of course, the person who had brought you into the new world.
"Tom, do you ever think that there is more going on here?" Melissa nervously broke the silence. She had felt like something was very wrong ever since they had stepped foot in this dimension just yesterday.
"I'm not saying that there isn't anything going on, but I don't feel like there is." He said with a sigh. Melissa just frowned back, she had an abnormal ability to detect danger and 90 percent of the time she happened to be right. Jake hadn't partaken in the conversation because he was staring at something intently out the window in the small guest room. Fluttershy had been so kind to let them have the room, instead of the floor. Tom had even offered it to her, but she turned it down in a heartbeat.
"Guys, do you think Fluttershy is comfortable with us yet?" Jake asked solemnly, the other two in the room were taken aback by his question.
"Jake, give her time, Twilight said she was very shy, be lucky you can even get a word out of her." Melissa stated.
"That's true, I just feel like I could do something to make it better between us." Tom cocked an eyebrow at Jake as he turned around to face him.
"Whoa dude, it's not like I'm in love with her or anything." Jake looked at Tom with a serious glare. Tom just shrugged and went back to the conversation.
"Well, who do you like then?" As soon as the question had left Tom's lips he had instantly regretted it. He didn't want to fuse into this world anymore than they already have, so asking whether or not they like the ponies around here was downright stupid.
Jake stared at him for a second, contemplating an answer. "To be honest, I just don't get the feeling we will get out of this, so settling down here might be the best bet." Melissa and Tom both glared at him in disgust, neither of the other two wanted to accept they were going to stay here forever. Jake, was actually Tom's last guess on who would accept this world first. However, people change, war doesn't.
"I don't understand why you can just waltz right in here and instantly take it as your new home, transformation shouldn't be that easy." Tom retorted.
"Dude, don't you see! We are not going back, I've seen some crazy stuff in my lifetime, but this? This isn't possible, but yet it happened, what do you think our possibility of getting back is?" Jake vented his anger on his siblings a lot, but yet they were taken aback by his sudden yelling.
Without a word Tom got up and trotted out of the room, he had gotten use to his new limbs but to him, they still felt foreign. He walked down into the main floor of the cottage and went to make himself some breakfast.
"Tom a-are you ok?" A small shy voice asked behind him.
"No, I'm not Fluttershy, just a little family fight, that's all." Tom sighed and turned around to meet Fluttershy's gaze. She quickly averted her eyes to the ground when Tom had turned around.
"Wel-l you cou-ld always see the rest of your species." Fluttershy tried to offer the most helpful suggestion she could think of.
"Yeah, I guess your right but as we explained yesterday, I don't really know them." Without waiting to hear Fluttershy's response, Tom trotted up to the room.
"Hey guys, I'm going to Twilight's place, you want to come?"
"I'll come, I guess." Melissa replied with a sigh.
"Jake?" Tom asked, already knowing the answer.
"No thanks, i'll stay here." Tom winced when Jake didn't want to be with his family. Tom wanted to make the perfect life for his two younger siblings, however, that was not always readily the case. They had fights but made up. This time, Jake wouldn't make up so fast.
"Alright Melissa, let's go..." Looking over at Jake's red and black form, they made there way out of the cottage.
Unknown to Melissa and Jake, not having cutie marks puts you as a bit of an outsider. Strange glances made the two uncomfortable. Tom also had gotten a comment on why his mane, tail, and fur were all black. He simply ignored the comment and kept walking. As they made their way to the more densely populated part of town, Tom realized something.
"Uh Melissa... I... uh... don't exactly know how to get to Twilight's house." Melissa stopped and turned around with an angry glare, one that would stop an Elite from coming at you.
"Then why are we out here? Tom!" Melissa yelled angrily bringing most of the eyes to her direction.
"Hmm, didn't think that far through. Why don't you go fly overhead and check it out?" Tom smirked, fully knowing all she knew how to do with her wings was make them twitch.
"Har har, very funny." She then proceeded to punch him in the shoulder, hard.
"Ow, come on! Was that really necessary?" Tom was gingerly holding his shoulder.
While to who sibling fight had been going on, a stallion was making his way over to the two.
"Why are you insulting this mare?" The newcomer fully unaware of the two being siblings or on how the fight had actually started.
"I'm not, I just said I have no idea where to get somewhere!" Tom said defensively, trying to put an end to the fight.
"Oh yeah?" The stallion glared at Tom then turned around and looked at Melissa.
"You have nice fur and hair. I like pink and purple." The stallion was trying to hard to flirt with Melissa, but she went along with it, hoping he would leave soon.
"Yeah? Sorry my pink hair... er... mane is unkempt, busy day as you can see." She subtly tried to get the hint across.
"Why don't you come back to my place, I'll fix your mane up for you," He said with a wink. While that had been going on, Tom was staring at them in mock horror. This was the last thing he had expected from this place. Finally after regaining his wits he spoke up.
"Hey, I don't appreciate you talking to my sister like that." Tom spoke up angrily. Melissa flashed him a glance and tried to get this newcomer to let them leave.
The stallion turned around and glared at Tom. "Why are you so protective of your sister? She doesn't look like she had ever gotten any action, probably because of you!" Tom angrily got up and was about to punch him when he felt something strange on his back. He turned around and saw he was now wearing a harness with his old gun attached to it.
The stallion backed up, now sure of what just happened. It was an odd feat of magic for that to appear, even if Tom was a unicorn. However Tom didn't even think to use the gun, he was so transfixed on how it had gotten there. When he felt his anger leave him, the gun dissipated in a cloud of red smoke. He put two and two together, red smoke and anger. That's what made it appear.
"Ok, sorry, I'll just leave now. I don't know what that was, but I'm not going to be the first to find out." The stallion then trotted away like nothing had happened.
"Wow Tom, so you still have your gun?" Melissa remarked.
"Yeah, I guess, pretty cool, but I figure it only appears if I'm angry." Tom sighed, wanting to have his gun all the time.
"Well, let's get to Twilight's, before something else appears on my body." Tom smirked, and was followed by Melissa as the two made their way throughout the town.